We keep circling back to yellow. It showed up on press tours in honey and mustard tones, then again in a pineapple yellow tee colour-blocked against cherry red, then again stamped across the bottom of a shoe as a design signal against all that muted black and brown. Seven sources in a matter of weeks, all landing on the same note.
Part of what's happening seems to be a shift from yellow-as-statement to yellow-as-accent; more than one voice we trust is calling it the season's quiet backup color rather than the main event, and there's a Versace-adjacent pull toward yellow skirts that feels less like a trend and more like a mood. It reads as confident without shouting, which tracks with how it's showing up: a dress, a sandal, a logo stamp, never the whole outfit.
We're partial to the Melissa Odabash Zima dress for exactly that reason; it does the color without overdoing it. The rest of what we're watching is below.
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